A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE MANUALS ON FLOWER ARRANGEMENT

A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE INSTRUCTIONAL MANUALS ON IKEBANA (FLOWER ARRANGEMENT)
MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY

Comprising three sets of three volumes each, entitled Shōgetsudō Kohō Hyakubin (One Hundred floral arrangements in the traditional ways of the Shōgetsudō School of Ikebana); another set Ryuha Hiden: Seika Shoho Dokushu (Secret Traditions of the School: A Self-Study Guide to the Fundamentals of Seika Ikebana), and the third simply Shōgetsudō Hyakubin (One Hundred floral arrangements of the Shōgetsudō School of Ikebana), 26cm x 18.1cm max. (9)

Provenance: from the Estate of a Collector, Heath House, Hampshire, and thence by descent. By repute, acquired in Asia at the turn of the 19th century.